Hand Clap Vst Plugin
If you can’t find the perfect snare or clap sample, make your own. Layering samples allows you to create the perfect blend. Bruce Aisher demonstrates.
Hand clap Availability, Tune, Tone, Decay, Pan, Level, Output destination 4 monaural samplers for cymbals (8-bit/16-bit wav format file support). Clap Machine is based on a collection of natural hand clap samples. The purpose of Clap Machine is to provide a quick and easy way to add natural sounding claps to your music. The plugin can be used to easily create rhythmic sequences, as well as natural sounding group claps (aka 'gang' claps) by playing multiple notes at the same time.
Second only to the all-important kick, snares and claps define the rhythmic core of most drum tracks. In some cases genres can even be defined by the sonics and style of their kick, snare and claps alone.
On the face of it you might think it’s simply a matter of choosing a couple of appropriate clap or snare sounds, placing them on the 2nd and 4th beats of the bar and ‘job done’. This may work to start with, but there some simple techniques to take your rhythm tracks that bit further. The beauty here is that it’s possible to give your productions your own personalised sonic stamp armed only with a few of the choice tricks discussed below.
EQ plugins are one of the most used plugins in music production. The reason for that is because EQing is the most invasive action that you can apply to your audio signal, whether you need to boost or cut the frequencies or just add some warmth to your audio. “Clap Machine is a freeware virtual instrument in VST and AU plug-in formats for Windows and Mac OS X, based on a collection of natural hand clap samples. The purpose of Clap Machine is to provide a quick and easy way to add natural sounding claps to your music. Clap Machine is based on a collection of natural hand clapsamples. The purpose of Clap Machine is to provide a quick and easy way to add natural sounding claps to your music. The plugin can be used to easily create rhythmic sequences, as well as natural sounding group claps (aka “gang” claps) by playing multiple notes at the same time.
Start with the right sounds
Assuming your kick drum’s already in place, let’s get the snare going. Vst plugins root folder pc. To begin with it’s sometimes better to start with a full-sounding snare, rather than anything too weak and simple. This should give you plenty of scope for some shaping and tweaking later.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-1a2.mp3http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-1b1.mp3Now it’s time to add a clap sound. First layer it in exactly the same place as the original snare. The clap sound in this case has an altogether different tone and shape to the snare. Claps tend to have less fullness to them, with a staggered attack phase. What we want here is something that complements our snare, rather than treading on its toes in sonic terms.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-1c.mp3http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-1d.mp3At this stage you may want adjust the relative levels of the snare and clap elements to suit your track.
Managing the stereo field and adding width
This actually works quite well, but we can make some of our own tweaks to tailor the sound. First we’ll spice up the snare with some bitcrushing. This adds grit and some distorted harshness.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-2a2.mp3Next we can add some additional width to the sound, by inserting a stereo delay. The key here is to use two short (but different) delay times for the left and right channels. If possible, try some low and high cut on the delay feed, and keep its mix balance to less than about 30%.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-2b2.mp3Now we turn our attention to the clap. A useful trick for widening the stereo image of a sound is to duplicate it across two tracks, pan the tracks left and right respectively and apply complimentary EQ to each. In other words, at frequencies where one is boosted, the other should be cut and vice versa.
There are in fact plugins that do this automatically for you. In this case we’re going to use the ‘Stereo Spread’ plugin Logic, that automatically splits and pans a series of EQ bands.
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-2c2.mp3Finally try shaving-off some of the low-end from both the clap and snare.
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Moving them forwards or backwards
It is possible to change the groove and flow of the drums by subtly shifting the clap (or snare) slightly before or after the beat.
Hand Clap Vst Plugins
http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-3a2.mp3http://www.attackmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Audio-Example-3b2.mp3Let’s stick with the slightly delayed clap for now.